Appendix 1.

Neighborhood indicators used to identify neighborhood types.

Indicator / Items
Perceptions of safety / §  Do you feel safe in your neighborhood?
Membership in community organizations / §  Do you belong to a group, club or team which is not run by your school? [a church group; a sports team or group; a cultural group; an environment organization (e.g. Greenpeace); a volunteer group who help people with disabilities or in hospital; a volunteer group involved with young people, e.g. Youthline; another type of group or club]
Collective efficacy / Social cohesion
§  Do you trust the people in your neighborhood?
§  Do you feel you really belong in your neighborhood?
§  Do the people in your neighborhood help each other?
§  Are people in your neighborhood friendly?
§  Do you like your neighborhood?
Parental knowledge
§  Does your family want to know who you are with and where you are?
Neighborhood facilities / §  What things are there to do in the area where you live that you can walk to from home? [park; youth center; movies; skateboard ramp; basketball court or sports field; swimming pool or place to go swimming; gym; bike track; place to play video games]
Neighborhood disorder / §  What are the bad things about the area where you live? [not enough footpaths; footpaths are rough and broken; too much traffic; steep hills; not enough street lighting; no-one’s around; no-one cares about how this place looks; not enough bike lanes; too many dogs; rubbish and mess; no skate parks or ramps; no high speed internet coverage; no cell phone coverage; no public transport; no access to arts, movies or other creative activities]
Off-premises density / §  Number of bottle stores (500m buffer), per 1,000 population
Bar density / §  Number of bars (500m buffer), per 1,000 population
Club density / §  Number of clubs (500m buffer), per 1,000 population
Restaurant density / §  Number of restaurants (500m buffer), per 1,000 population
Area-level deprivation / §  Population-weighted average deprivation scores. Deprivation dimensions: Access to the Internet at home, proportion receiving welfare, low income, unemployment, educational qualifications, home ownership, single parent families, overcrowded living, access to car